{"id":9702,"date":"2020-04-29T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2020-04-29T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:59:03","slug":"watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9702","title":{"rendered":"Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/04\/29\/baking-cakes-coronavirus-and-survival-through-turbulent-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Owens, CounterPunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I, along with the rest of you, watch my country and a good portion of the world falling further and further into the pits of corruption and the ruins of despair. The up-coming 2020 election is one example of the dire-straits we are in and the overwhelming sense of hopelessness that many people, self-included, are feeling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These two sentences encapsulate an excellent description of the posture of most Americans I am aware of: passive, without agency, watching, provincial, narcissistic, hopeless. It&#8217;s a state of conscious learned helplessness for which there is the prerequisite of assumed luxury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Owens, CounterPunch: I, along with the rest of you, watch my country and a good portion of the world falling further and further into the pits of corruption and the ruins of despair. The up-coming 2020 election is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9702\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}